TD Bank cuts ribbon for its new Southeast hub headquarters in Greenville

The bank celebrated the opening of its call center at its Southeast regional hub in Greenville on Friday. The hub contains lenders, technology workers and employee training as well as a call center. The bank's campus has 600 workers and the company is adding 30 new employees a month with a goal to have 1,400 workers in the next three to five years, TD Bank Regional President Rob Hoak said.

The grand opening of the call center came after a series of groundbreakings for distribution centers, tire makers and other manufacturers over the past few years. South Carolina's unemployment rate has dropped from 11.9 percent to 8.6 percent over the past three years. House Speaker Bobby Harrell said state leaders have worked hard to fight back after the Great Recession.

The call center sits on two floors. It is painted in cheerful colors. The first floor is surrounded by windows, and employees, who are constantly starting work throughout the day, are rotated around the room to cubicles keep the sun out of their eyes. The second floor has giant murals of South Carolina scenes, like beaches, forests and farmland.

Many of them wore shirts or ties or even silly hats in TD Bank's trademark green. And they were working as the ceremony took place in the lobby.

TD Bank picked Greenville as its Southeastern hub last year. The company's dual U.S. headquarters remain in New Jersey and Maine. Hoak said the company has been happy with the quality of workers it has found in South Carolina, and gets thousands of applications for the wide range of its open positions.